Zoey Tur Quotes

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues.

Everyone else is following these male and female tracks that have already been set for them, but when you're trans there is no trail.

Transgender people really are misunderstood.

For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.

Number one, I don't understand a transgender. I don't understand. Is it a guy dressed up like a girl, or a girl dressed up like a guy?

The way I see things is that, I think that transgender people are super brave. If you're a female to male, male to female, if you're that brave to take control of your own body and make it however you want it to be, more power to you.

The first thing that's really important to understand, just when approaching the topic of transgender people, is that the sex you're assigned with at birth is not the same as your gender identity.

For my entire life, I've wrestled with my gender identity.

Me feeling ambiguous about my gender identity has been a lifelong feeling, certainly.

I think it's really difficult for folks that aren't transgender to really wrap their mind around the feeling of having a gender identity that differs from their sex assigned at birth. But for me, it felt like a constant feeling of homesickness.

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

I had always been a really peculiar child. My mom would tell you I grew up roughing it with the boys and playing with action figures and toy cars and stuff, but I also had an Easy Bake Oven... I find it amazing that in a really weird way, people are mad that they can't figure out my gender.

Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.

When I was really little, it was very clear to me that I felt like a boy, and my friends were all boys.

I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.

I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'

Society doesn't tell you that you can be trans.

When I was five, I came to understand that I was not a boy.

I've always been Sarah. My gender identity has always existed. I've always been a woman. Gay people aren't straight before they come out as gay, and transgender people are who they are before they come out and transition.

I consider myself a woman. I happen to fall into the transgender category, but I rather describe myself as a woman first.

My parents started questioning me about whether or not I was transgender - whether or not I was trying to be a woman. It was a big argument.

I've always known exactly who I am. I was a girl trapped in a boy's body.